Speakers
We’re assembling a line-up of talented leaders from some of the world's most pioneering organisations. They'll be sharing their insights, their stories and their ideas - as well as some of their pain from past challenges. It's all designed to help you navigate your own leadership journey.
More speakers will be announced over the coming months, so check back for details or sign up to our mailer for the latest updates.
Temi Adeniyi
Product Design Manager, Instagram
Hugo Cornejo
Co-founder, Packfleet
Lauren Currie
Founder & CEO, UPFRONT
Matt Davey
Chief Experience Officer, 1Password
Lou Downe
Founder & Director, The School of Good Services
Rebecca Groves
Leading Design curator & programme lead, Clearleft
Chris How
Head of Experience Design, Clearleft
Līga Lētiņa
Head of Design, Printify
Adam Morris
Head of Product Design & UX, The Economist
Lisa Payne
Global Director UX Research, Condé Nast
Lauren Pleydell-Pearce
Chief Creative Officer, PwC
Remya Ramesh
Design leader
Maja S. Raunbak
VP, Experience Design, TV 2 Denmark
Ovetta Sampson
Director of UX Core Machine Learning, Google
Eric Snowden
VP of Design, Adobe Inc
Annie Stewart
Chief Product Officer, Team n Time
Teak Tse
Group Director of Design Systems & Operations, Sky
Payal Wadhwa
Former leadership and VP, frog
Hannah Westerman
Founder & Creative Director, Avenue West
Julia Whitney
Executive & Leadership Coach, Whitney and AssociatesPast speakers
Since 2016 Leading Design has been convening the brightest minds in design leadership from some of the world's most pioneering organisations. Meet a few of our past speakers...
Jane Austin
Chief Experience Officer, Digitas
Mike Davidson
Vice President, InVision
Dantley Davis
Chief Design Officer, Twitter
Janice Fraser
Senior Vice President, Bionic
Aaron Irizarry
Sr. Director of Design, Capital One
Margaret Lee
Leadership Coach, Design Dept.
Noah Levin
Design Director, Figma
Jill Lin
Head of Interaction Design, The LEGO group
Farai Madzima
UX Manager, Shopify
Dan Mall
Founder, SuperFriendly
Peter Merholz
Design organization consultant, Humanism at Scale, LLC
Iram Mirza
UX Lead, YouTube
Ovetta Sampson
Director of UX Core Machine Learning, Google
Alberta Soranzo
Group Head of Customer Experience, Vodafone Business
James Stevens
Director of Group Product Research & Opportunity Development, Sky
Andy Vitale
Executive Vice President, Design, Rocket Companies
Cap Watkins
CXO, Primary
Alla Weinberg
CEO & Culture Designer, Spoke and Wheel
Lisa Welchman
Consultant & Author, Hildegard BV